Improving the detectability of overactive glands in dual-phase parathyroid SPECT/CT: a Monte Carlo simulation study.

Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express
Aysegul Oral, Albert Guvenis

Abstract

Objective. SPECT-CT is a standard procedure conducted before minimally invasive surgery for the treatment of primary hyperthyroidism. In order to improve image quality, it is important to know how defect detectability is influenced by acquisition and processing parameters. The objective of this study is to continue prior physical phantom optimization studies by performing Monte Carlo simulations for the dual phase parathyroid SPECT-CT protocol using a digital anthropomorphic phantom.Methods. The dual phase parathyroid SPECT-CT imaging procedure with 99mTc-Sestamibi was simulated using the previously extensively validated SIMIND software for the first time. An anthropomorphic ZUBAL based phantom was built to represent an adenoma. Its diameter was set to 0.76 cm which corresponded to more than three times the pixel size and the target-to-background ratio was set to 16:1 based on previous studies. Four different collimators were tested. Contrast-to-noise (CNR) values were determined for different scatter correction options and processing parameter values. The OSEM algorithm was used for image reconstruction.Results. CNR values were improved from about zero (LEGP collimator, 16 iterations, attenuation correction: on, scatter correc...Continue Reading

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